Literary notes about Stock (AI summary)
The term "stock" assumes a rich variety of meanings in literature, functioning both literally and metaphorically. In some works it refers to ancestry or origins, as when nations are said to have proceeded from the same stock [1, 2]. In others it identifies physical objects—a component of a firearm [3] or a share in commercial enterprises [4, 5, 6, 7]—and even extends to collections of items like livestock [8] or provisions [9, 10]. Authors also exploit the word to evoke a sense of reserve or accumulated resource, whether describing a tangible store [11] or the underlying patience or character inherited by a person [12, 13]. Such versatile usage enriches narratives by blending the material with the metaphorical [14, 15].
- I think my Self that the provalence of this custom is a Strong proof of those nations haveing originally proceeded from the Same Stock.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - We are told of similar mental peculiarities running in families, and again of a tendency, as in the animals, to revert to a common or original stock.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - The horses started off suddenly, Levin knocked his head against the stock of someone’s gun, and there was the report of a shot.
— from Anna Karenina by graf Leo Tolstoy - That afternoon, accompanied by his secretary, he sold the annuities to a stock-broker and realized forty-six thousand francs.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc - A share in the stock of the British Linen company of Edinburgh sells, at present, very much below par, though less so than it did some years ago.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - The revenue of the farmer is derived partly from his labour, and partly from his stock.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - If the expense of his house and person either equalled or exceeded his revenue, as it did very frequently, he had no stock to employ in this manner.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - With the exception of Mr. N., we had no one on board but the regular ship's company, and the live stock.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana - thus we hope shortly to replenish our stock of provision which is now reduced to a mere minnamum.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - This unexpected capture enabled us to renew our stock of provisions in a very satisfactory way.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne - All were agreed that one could be ordered, but that it was not a usual size of pencil and that it was seldom kept in stock.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - In fact, however deep-rooted and sacred a stock of sentiments you might hold, you would never, of your own accord, give them utterance."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - Even for his classroom he had no platitudes, no stock of professorial anecdotes.
— from My Ántonia by Willa Cather - The proprietor of stock is properly a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith - By removing his stock, he would put an end to all the industry which it had maintained in the country which he left.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
